Dark Companions

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Summary: Stories that will give you nightmares
Review: Few writers can even come close to the strange, nightmarish stories of Ramsey Campbell and, in this collection, he is in top form. Several of these tales will keep you up late at night, looking in the shadows, listening to those stranges noise that keep getting louder, as if they were getting closer. Don't read it alone.

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Summary: A Supernatural Fiction Masterpiece
Review: Quite simply, this is one of the best collections of ghost stories ever written, worthy to stand on the shelf beside the work of M.R. James, Henry James, Robert Aickman, Edgar Allan Poe and whomever else you place in your horror pantheon. It is regrettable that the U.S. edition lacks the terrifying "The Trick," which appeared later in WAKING NIGHTMARES - the U.K. and U.S. editions of DARK COMPANIONS differ by 4 tales - but this is made up for by the presence of the quite different, but equally terrifying "The Pattern". How was this excellent book ever allowed to lapse out of print?